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PERSONNEL 
OF THE 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


OLIVER W. VAN OSDEL, D.D., 
Pastor Baptist Temple, Grand Rapids, Mich. 


DONALD D. MUNRO, D.D., 
Bible Teacher, of New York City. 
(For years Pastor Calvary Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo.) 


WILLIAM L. PETTINGILL, Pastor, Author, 
3ible Teacher and Dean of the Philadelphia School of the Bible 


FREDERICK W. FARR, 
Pastor Calvary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, Calif. 


R. E. NEIGHBOUR, 
Pastor First Baptist Church, Elyria, O., Author and Bible Teacher 


HEADQUARTERS 


FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ELYRIA, OHIO 


SECRETARY AND Treas. O. G. NICHOLS, Asst. Pastor, 
First Baptist Church, Elyria, O 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


THE DEMAND FOR THIS BOOKLET 


1—The purpose of this booklet is to meet the great 
and growing need now conspicuously apparent by 
communications coming in many ways from a widely 
extended field and from many of God’s people. This 
need is vitally connected with the ministry of prayer 
and giving in the discharge of our missionary’ obliga- 
tions. Who are the missionaries true to Christ? What 
Scriptural organizations true to the faith are there en- 
gaged in the work? and where can God’s money be 
safely invested? These are burning questions, arising 
in thousands of minds today. It is unnecessary to stop 
to prove that the apostasy is here. We are-compelled 
to recognize its sweep. One great denomination after 
another has come under its sway and felt the power 
of its traitorous endeavors. ‘This is now conceded by 
those to whom this booklet is addressed. 

This blessed company is composed of more than sev- 
en thousand and they have never bent the knee to de- 
structive criticism. ‘These saints believe the Holy 
Spirit in John’s Second Epistle, verses nine to eleven, 
when He says: “Whosoever goeth onward and abideth 
not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God. If any one 
cometh unto you, and bringeth not this teaching, re- 
ceive him not into your house, and give him no greet- 
ing; for he that giveth him greeting partaketh in his 
evil works.” 


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These saints are willing to join hands in a titanic 
effort to “purge out the old leaven” from the denomi- 
nations, but they are equally unwilling to “suffer the wom- 
an Jezebel who calleth herself a -prophetess” to teach and 
seduce God’s servants. They appreciate the deeply 
significant words from God, recorded in 2nd Chronicles 
19:2, concerning evil affinities and a false fellowship ; 
words which all would do well to ponder :—“Shouldest 
thou help the wicked and love them that hate Jehovah? 
for this thing wrath is upon thee from before Jehovah.” 
May the Lord save present day Jehoshaphats from af- 
finity with present day Ahabs! 

Throughout the United States there are many thou- 
sands of believers who are set for the defense of the Gos- 
pel and who are called upon to contend earnestly for 
the faith once for all delivered to the saints. 

Can light have communion with darkness? Can a 
believer have part with an unbeliever? Can two walk 
together except they be agreed? 

If those who deny the faith were in such a distinc- 
tive minority that they held no directive power and no 
polluting influence over doctrinal positions, then these 
saints to whom we write would find less difficulty in 
continuing their co-operation in denominational mis- 
sion work, while they seek to “purge out the old leav- 
Cth 

But when those who deny the faith hold sufficient 
power to dominate denominational education and to 
direct, more or less, the personnel and policy of denom- 
inational missions, then quite another aspect of affairs 
is presented. 

All will concede that our schools, colleges and semi- 
naries are the fountain head and source of denomina- 
tional supply. 

Our pastors, teachers, evangelists and missionaries 


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for the great part enter the pulpits and fields at home 
and abroad by way of these schools. 

Can a bitter fountain give forth sweet water? Cana 
thorn bear figs? If the schools are liberal, the pulpits 
at home will be liberal. 

If the schools are given to the heretical conclusions 
of modernism, then the pulpits abroad will be given to 
the same. 

At the Buffalo Convention we asked one of our re- 
turned missionaries from India if we had any destruc- 
tive critics among our missionaries in that country—he 
replied “Of the old file, No; but of the younger mission- 
aries now being sent out, Yes.” 

Those who contend for the faith cannot support a 
propaganda that denies the faith that saves. We can- 
not conscientiously support one message at home, and 
a distinctly opposite message and method away from 
home. 

It is well enough to seek to free the great Baptist 
body from every vestige of false teaching and to re- 
deem every school and every college from false teach- 
ers, and also to redeem every publication and every 
missionary organization from modernism. ‘This is 
well. But, until that vital change is at least practically 
assured, nay, fully accomplished, there are thousands 
who must stand “separated.” How can the children 
of God continue to support that which is heterodox, 
that which is continually striking, serpent like, at the 
very vitals of the doctrine of Christ? 

Our booklet and our Missionary Helpers’ Council 
is, as we believe, God’s answer to the oft repeated voice 
of many honest and consecrated servants of Christ who 
have written us that they cannot longer give their 
money to a system that is intermingled with Destruc- 
tive Criticism and Humanism. 


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There are still many on the foreign fields connected 
with denominational boards, who stand true to the 
faith and who would be willing to die for the Gospel 
of Christ, but these cannot control the new supplies 
of modernists being sent forward. 

Missionary money could be sent to the denomina- 
tional boards and designated for the faithful mission- 
aries; but money so given and designated only frees 
that much more money for use in furthering a cause 
which does not stand four square for God. Thus, while 
supporting those who are true, by way of designated 
funds, there remains the certainty of helping the false. 
When money is all placed in one treasury, even tho it 
be designated, it is upholding the system and the men 
who are supporting those who deny the faith. 


2'There is a second reason for this booklet and for 
the Missionary Helpers’ Council. It lies in the fact 
that from many sources there has arisen the persistent 
inquiry: Where can we, who are unwilling to support 
liberalistic missions, place our missionary money so 
that we can know it will count for God and preach the 
whole Gospel of Christ? 

Our booklet is the response to these inquiries. We 
have been led to set forth the names of certain faith 
missions, and also certain individual missionaries 
whom we can most heartily endorse. 

We do not claim to have gone into a detailed exami- 
nation of the inside management of these missions, but 
we have sought to assure ourselves that every one rec- 
ommended by this booklet is standing unswervingly 
for the great verities of the Buble. 

Each mission or individual herewith commended ac- 
cepts the detailed statement of faith published else- 
where in the booklet. Each is being used and owned 
of God in a precious way in their work abroad. 


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These missions are not all Baptist in name, but they 
stand firmly and fully for a regenerate membership 
and for the great fundamentals of the faith for which 
‘Baptists have stood—and with certain exceptions, as not- 
ed in this booklet, they practice immersion only on their 
fields. 

If any desire further information on this line we will 
gladly give it. 

These missionaries and missions are called Faith 
Missions because they look to God for their income and 
use only such funds as are actually in hand. They nev- 
er resort to worldly drives and long drawn pledges to 
get money for their work. They present their work 
and look to God, through His people, to supply the 
needs. 


THE INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. 


The Interchurch World Movement was closely al- 
lied with denominational boards. It adopted the meth- 
ods and followed the lead of the men who stand at 
the head of the great church organizations. 

Its message was theirs, its method was theirs. Eve- 
ry possible cause for friction was eliminated, every 
possible concession was granted. 

If the Interchurch Movement failed, it did not fail 
because it acted independently of the organized societies 
and great boards. 

If the Interchurch adopted a propaganda too sweep- 
ing and a plan of campaign too expensive, it certainly 
did it under the patronage of the great denominations. 

To be sure the Southern Baptists and some others 
stood aloof, but the very life of the titanic task 
planned and pursued by the Interchurch; its great 


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drive for money and its carnal weapons were all de 
pendent upon the closest affiliation with more than 
thirty denominations. 

Had the Interchurch realized its expectations, war 
methods and world methods for raising colossal sums of 
money would have succeeded, and the inhabiters of the 
earth would have been startled with its gigantic size. 
The denominational schools and colleges, the new so- 
cial conception of Gospel propaganda at-home and on 
the foreign fields, would have been provided with many 
millions of money with which to put over the most 
stupendous carnal effort to carry through a supposedly 
spiritual task that twenty centuries of church life 
have witnessed. 

But where in all this worldly effort and interdenom- 
inational plan did the faith missions come in? 

These faith missions have been greatly used of God; 
they have pressed to the darkest corners of the earth, 
preaching the Gospel of the Son of God; they have 
kept their home expenses and the support of their mis- 
sionaries abroad down to the minimum. 

These faith missions have gone forth looking only to 
God for their support. They have given up all and 
have gone out under God’s leading to preach the un- 
emasculated Gospel of the Son of God. 

The true churches have always been more or less 
kindly disposed to these noble missions, and God has 
always laid their needs upon the hearts of His spir- 
itual saints in the churches, and through them supplied 
their needs. 

But the Interchurch came along, and without the 
slightest consideration for God’s arrangements, sought, 
under a high pressure and a man-made drive, to tie up 
the churches under a financial burden that would have 


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taxed their every resource to the utmost for years to 
come. 

Where did the faith missions come in? Nowhere. 
They were not wanted. They could not have adopted 
such worldly methods had they been wanted. They 
walk by faith and not by sight. They adopt the spirit- 
ual and not the carnal. They look to God and not to 
man. They present their work to God’s people who 
believe in prayer and have no appeal to make to 
“friendly citizens.” 

The faith missions were completely left out. Had 
the Interchurch and other church drives succeeded 
in tying up God’s money, as planned, in the hands of 
socializers and civilizers for the next five years, the faith 
societies would, humanly speaking, have been greatly 
crippled. 

But God did not ieave them out. ‘The Interchurch 
failed—all over the land, simultaneously and with- 
out any preconceived or carefully planned action, 
thousands of churches and tens of thousands of saints 
rose up and protested. 

Letters came from every section of the United 
States; letters of inquiry and letters revealing the ac- 
tions of churches against this man-made scheme. 

_ The tide was turned; the child of humanism, fostered 
by Modernism, did not thrive for long; but will un- 
questionably appear again later, in another form. 

Today a host of those who know God are afraid of 
human schemes by which men, under the goad of those 
who deny the faith, seek to raise funds, part of which, 
and a large part too, is designated to Germanized 
schools, to social gospel ideals and to false teachings. 

Our Missionary Helpers’ Council proposes to give 
information as to where money can be given to preach 
the whole Gospel. 


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GOD’S COMMAND TO PREACH THE GOSPEL 
TO EVERY CREATURE MUST BE 
OBEYED 


Because the apostasy has made inroads into denom- 
inational missions, therefore some have withheld their 
missionary offerings altogether. This is wrong. 

While we should not help to scatter tares, we cer- 
tainly should continue to scatter the wheat. 

Christ’s command to go into all the world and make 
disciples covers the whole of the age. It is the duty 
of the Christians of today to give the Gospel to all 
the people of today. 

Conscientious saints cannot support ministers at 
home or missionaries abroad who have turned from the 
“Gospel of God” to “another gospel, which is not an- 
other ;” but these same saints must, as far as in them 
lies, preach the Gospel to every creature. 

There are many missionaries now on the foreign 
field who are true and faithful to their sacred trust. 
Many of these missionaries are still connected with a 
denominationalism that has left the faith, since they, 
themselves, went to the foreign field. Should the 
apostasy reach such a climax that these missionaries 
would find their work and testimony either hindered 
by the apostasy in the homeland, or embarrassed by 
the growing apostasy in the foreign field, and therefore 
be left without hearty support, then the believers at 
home who still remain true to the faith, should, at all 
sacrifice, stand ready to hold up the hands of such 
missionaries. 

Suppose, for instance, some of the missionaries at 
Shanghai, China, should find it necessary in fidelity to 
God, to withdraw from the overpowering influence 


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that Destructive Criticism has already secured in the 
Baptist College there, then those who stand aloof at 
home must be ready to hold up the hands of those who 
are forced to stand alone at Shanghai. 

Besides this, there are in every part of the lost 
world missionaries who are sent out by the faith mis- 
sions and there are also individual missionaries plod- 
ding away, who are true to the faith, while many more 
stand ready to go forth from this country with the 
message of Life; all of these we must sustain in their 
work. } 

The Missionary Helpers’ Council proposes to take in 
the whole world in its presentations. “God so loved the 
world” and the whole world must be our parish. 

Each of the faith missions is working in behalf of 
some special field. It can only present to the people 
the needs of that one field. It is to this that it is 
specially called of God. Our purpose is to present to 
believers the whole field, and then look to the Holy 
Spirit to lead each church or individual as to where 
their gifts should be sent. 

The Missionary Helpers’ Council will receive mon- 
ey from any church or individual, and the Council will 
send the money on as designated and without charge, 
to any of the societies, councils, missions or individ- 
uals mentioned and endorsed in this booklet. 

When churches or individuals send us money, un- 
designated, then the Missionary Helpers’ Council will 
disburse that money, still without any charge, as it 
may be led by the Spirit—sending it where it believes 
it will be most needed. 

The work of the Missionary Helpers’ Council will be 
supported by free will offerings given directly for that 
purpose. No reductions in any money given for missionary 
work will be made to meet the expenses of the Council. 


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A Christian layman has already put into our hands 
$750.00 as the first expense money needed to print and 
mail the 20,000 booklets now going forth. 

Each church or individual sending in money to the 
Missionary Helpers’ Council will receive a receipt from 
its treasurer, and from time to time a full statement of 
all receipts and disbursements will be made. 

Churches or individuals desiring to support either 
foreign missionaries, or native helpers, or Bible Col- 
porteurs, may do so through the Missionary Helpers’ 
Council. The Council will do all in its power to secure 
these special missionaries for those desiring them, and 
will either receive and disburse the money; or the 
money may be sent directly to the missions, if that is 
thought preferable. 


STATEMENTS 
by 
THE MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


1. The members of the Missionary Helpers’ Union 
are all Baptists. We realize, however, that there are 
many who are not Baptists, who stand with us heart 
and hand, both in the doctrinal beliefs set forth herein, 
and also in their desire to give and give largely to mis- 
sionaries who hold and proclaim a like precious faith. 
Therefore this booklet will appeal to orthodox beliey- 
ers of many varied affiliations. 


2. In the list of faith missionary societies endorsed, 
a special note is made of those which do not exclusive- 
ly practice immersion. However, in each case, the 
missions do support a large percentage of Baptist Mis- 
sionaries and others who practice immersion. 


3. As stated elsewhere, the Missionary Helpers’ 
Union will gladly receive missionary money for any-of 


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the societies endorsed in this booklet, and will forward 
all designated money, in full, without charge or ex- 
pense to the givers. We prefer, however, that money 
be sent directly to the societies themselves. Any 
churches or believers who wish to send the Missionary 
Helpers’ Union money undesignated, may do so. Un- 
designated money will be disbursed as the wisdom of 
the Union may direct, but always among the societies 
herein set forth. No “expense” money shall be de- 
ducted in any case, but all money given shall go di- 
rectly to missionary work. 


4. Upon the receipt of any money, the Secretary- 
Treasurer, Mr. O. G. Nichols, will send acknowledg- 
ments to the donors, and his books will always be open 
to those who give through the Union. 

The Missionary Helpers’ Union looks to God for the 
expense money needed to carry forward its office and 
printing work and all overhead expenses, just as the 
missionaries they represent look to God. Gifts for the 
work of the Union must be so designated. 


DOCTRINAL BELIEFS 


The following doctrinal beliefs are accepted and 
fully endorsed both by the Missionary Helpers’ Union 
and by the faith missionary societies herein mentioned 
and endorsed, and by their missionaries on the foreign 
fields: 


1. We believe that the Bible is the Word and rev- 
elation of God and therefore our only authority. 


2. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
that He is very God, by Whom and for Whom “all 
things were created.” 


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3. We believe in His virgin birth, that He was con- 
ceived by the Holy Spirit and is therefore God man- 
ifested in the flesh. 


4. We believe in salvation by divine sacrifice, that 
the Son of God gave “His life a ransom for many” and 
bore “our sins in His own body on the tree ;” therefore 
we are redeemed by “the precious blood of Christ.” 


5. We believe in His physical resurrection from the 
dead and in His bodily presence at the right hand of 
God as our High Priest and Advocate. 


6. We believe in the universality and heinousness of 
sin, and in salvation by grace, “not of works lest any 
man should boast ;” that sonship with God is attained 
only by regeneration through the Holy Spirit and faith 
in Jesus Christ. 


7. We believe in the personality and deity of the 
Holy Spirit, Who came down upon earth on the day 
of Pentecost to indwell believers and to be the Admin- 
istrator in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ ; Who is 
also here to “reprove the world of sin, and of right- 
eousness, and of judgment.” 


8. We believe in the great commission which our 
Lord has given to His Church to evangelize the 
world, and that this evangelization is the great mission 
of the church. 


9. We believe in the second, visible and imminent 
coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to estab- 
lish His world-wide Kingdom on the earth. 


10. We believe in a Heaven of eternal bliss for the 
righteous and in the conscious and eternal punishment 
of the wicked. 


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CO-OPERATING BAPTIST MISSIONS OF 
NORTH AMERICA 


MID-AFRICA MISSION 


Presipent: A. H. BOND, Columbus, Ohio 
Secretary: O. G. NICHOLS, Asst. Pastor, Elyria, Ohio. 
TREASURER: ALLISON De NISE, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
GEN. CounsELLor, E. S. CARMAN, Cleveland, Ohio. 


The rapid increase in the number of churches and 
individuals asking how to co-operate with those now 
engaged in evangelizing the largest of the unreached 
parts of Africa, and elsewhere, has made necessary so 
great an enlargement in the plans of co-operation that 
representatives from churches in Ohio, Michigan, and 
West Virginia, of orthodox Baptist faith, have formed 
a General Council through which they may intelli- 
gently and efficiently work together for the spread of 
the glorious Gospel of the grace of God among the 
yet unreached millions in the foreign fields. 

A number of churches and volunteers from other 
states are.also co-operating and provision has been 
made whereby they may be included and representa- 
tion given them on the General Council. 

This Council shall be composed of representatives 
from churches of orthodox Baptist faith who go on 
record each year to unequivocal acceptance of the “faith 
once for all delivered to the saints,” by subscribing to 
the full inspiration of the Scriptures, the eternal Deity 
of each of the three Persons of the Godhead, the vi- 
carious sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the 
cross, His burial and bodily resurrection, the blessed 
hope, His glorious appearing, the absolute separation 
of church and state, the independence of the local 
church and such other vital teachings as orthodox 
Baptists have uniformly confessed. 


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In order to facilitate the work of this Council, a Gen- 
eral Counsellor, Mr. E. S. Carman of Cleveland, Ohio, 
has been elected and authorized to advise with church- 
es and individuals interested and with volunteers as 
to the best ways of co-operation at home; and Mission- 
ary Wm. Haas has been elected field Counsellor to ad- 
vise with the missionaries on the field as far as their 
instructions from their home churches will permit. 
These two brethren are making a special study of the 
problems entering into the arrangements for churches 
and volunteers to make, in order to render co-operation, 
direct support, transportation and similar matters most 
effective, economical and expeditious. They feel the 
need of the prayers of all interested and are subject 
to the instructions of the General Council. 


Contributions 


1. Contributions may be sent direct from the church 
making donation to the missionary on the field, or they 
may be sent to the treasurer of this Council, Mr. Alli- 
son De Nise, 1601 N. Coit St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 

2. Contributions may be designated for any mission- 
ary or for any department of the missionary work and 
forwarded to the treasurer of this Council and he will 
immediately send same to the place and for the purpose 
designated. 

3. Contributions may be made for the general work 
in Africa and the distribution left to the discretion of 
Mr. Haas and the others on the field. 

4, Contributions may be made without designation 
and sent to the treasurer, Mr. De Nise, and the Council 
will look the field over and place the money where they 
think the need is greatest. 


Information 
Any orthodox Baptist church or group of Baptist 
churches desiring to send forth their own missionaries 


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to any foreign field or country, and desiring to become 
responsible both for their support and their conduct 
upon the foreign field may co-operate with and send 
their missionaries through the General Council of Co- 
operating Baptist Missions of North America. 

Any person or church desiring information concern- 
ing the work, the needs, the plans of giving, the methods 
of support for the missionaries; or desiring to have a 
part in the support of any missionary, or the entire sup- 
port of either a missionary or a native worker, or both, 
may obtain the information needed, by writing the 
secretary, O. G. Nichols, Elyria, Ohio. 


Missionaries on the Field 

The following missionaries are on the field in the 
far interior of Africa: 

Bro. William Clarence Haas, of Memorial Baptist 
Church, Columbus, Ohio. 

*Mrs. William Haas, of Memorial Baptist Church, 
Columbus, Ohio. 

Bro. Ferdinand Rosenau of First Baptist, Minneapo- 
lis, Minn. 

Mrs. Ferdinand Rosenau of Calvary Baptist, Cedar 


Rapids, la. 
Bro. Arthur R. Young, Grace Baptist, Binghamton, 
NOEYe 


Mrs. Arthur R. Young, Grace Baptist, Binghamton, 
INGEY 

Mrs. L,. Rowena Becker, of First Baptist, New York 
City. 

Mr. A. W. Bragg, French Congo, Africa. 

Mr. Antoine Rollier, French Congo, Africa. 

Mr. Bernald Aalbu, Belgian Congo, Africa. 

All the money for the outfits and for the passports of 
these faithful servants of God came in answer to prayer 
and complete dependence upon the Lord. 

A second group of missionaries is to sail in 1921. 


*Note: Mrs. Haas now on furlough. 


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CEYLON AND INDIA GENERAL MISSION 


Director: B. DAVIDSON. 
Home Director: REV. CHARLES INWOOD, F.R.G:S. 
SECRETARY AND TREASURER: DAVID GARDINER. 
Office of the Mission: 63, Oakfield Road, Stroud Green, London, N. 4 


AMERICAN COUNCIL 


CuHairRMAN: REV. P. B. FITZWATER, 153 Institute Place, Chicago. 
Sec’y-Treas: DAVID MacNAUGHTON. 


Rey. Ernest A. Bell Rev. Robt. M. Russell 
Rev. H. P. Dunlop Thomas E. Stephens 
A. F. Gaylord Robert B. Smith 
Rev. Wm. McCarroll Rev. J. C. O’Hair 
Bryan Y. Craig Rev. A. M. Stone 


Rev. A. C. Dixon, D.D. 
The Field 

AREA: India is as large as the continent of Europe, 
not including Russia, and among its people are a great- 
er variety of races and languages than in Europe. 

Ceylon is about the size of Ireland. 

PopuLaTIoN: India has a vast population of 320 mil- 
lions, or one-fifth of the human race. 


SPHERE: Our work is among three races, the Tele- 
gus and Tamils in India, and the Sinhalese in Ceylon. 
Fach of these races has a distinct language of its own; 
but each missionary is required to speak but one lan- 
guage, that used in the section of the country in which 
his work is located. Of each race there are millions of 
people. An understanding exists between the mission- 
ary societies that in order to avoid overlapping in the 
work each society has a defined area to work in among 
the races of India and Ceylon. Therefore there are no 
other societies working in our spheres, and the people 
there are entirely dependent on us to give them the 
Gospel. 


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The Mission 

OricIn: On October 6th, 1892, the definite call of 
God through Joshua 1:1-9 came to Mr. B. Davidson 
to found this Mission on the principle of faith in God 
for the supply of all spiritual and temporal needs, no 
debt to be incurred, and God has proved His faithful- 
ness and sufficiency all these years. 

Aim: To give the Gospel to as many as we can in 
the unreached parts of India and Ceylon and to gather 
out a people for His name; to form these into churches 
and to teach them to be self-supporting, self-governing 
and self-extending. 

Property: ‘The Mission owns seven mission houses 
in India, five church buildings, besides smaller build- 
ings for worship, four Homes for boys and girls, forty- ° 
five school buildings, houses for Indian preachers and 
teachers, tents for touring, conveyances, etc., all free 
from debt. 

FINANCES: ‘The Mission is supported by the free- 
will offerings of the Lord’s people. No debt is incurred, 
the missionaries recognizing their entire dependence 
upon God for the supply of their needs. The funds re- 
ceived for the support of missionaries are equally di- 
vided. 

MISSIONARIES AND WorKERS: ‘The staff.of the Mis- 
sion at present (1920) is 30 missionaries, and 100 Indian 
preachers, teachers and Bible Women. 

Resutts: More than 2,000 souls have professed 
faith in Christ, churches have been established and are 
carried on with all their saving and sanctifying influ- 
ence through preaching and teaching the Word; Sun- 
day Schools and Christian Endeavor Societies are im- 
portant features of our work, and many of our people 
give the Gospel to the villages around. 


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Our preachers and teachers are chiefly raised from 
our own converts. They have been educated in our 
schools and have received a two years’ course of sound 
Bible teaching before being appointed as preachers. 
We have no sympathy with so-called Higher Criti- 
cism or the New Theology. We train our people and 
preachers in orthodox truth. 

Many thousands of heathen are reached with the 
Gospel in outlying villages every year as our mission- 
aries and workers go among them, touring and living 
in tents. Thousands of tracts, Gospels and Bibles have 
been circulated among the people annually and are 
eagerly read. 

In our schools thousands of children have been edu- 
cated, and many saved. Our schools are evangelistic 
agencies. Many in our four Homes for orphans have 
been rescued from lives of sin and shame, saved, edu- 
cated, and are now occupying positions of trust, such 
as pastors, preachers, teachers, clerks and tradesmen. 

The gathering out of Christian communities with all 
their light and cleanliness where only darkness and’ 
dirt ruled before, is a great work of God, and these 
Christian centers are living witnesses for Him. Idola- 
try, drunkenness and waste have given away to Christ, 
sobriety and thrift. 

We train nearly all the converts to witness for 
Christ. Every Sunday bands of them go to the villages 
and preach to the heathen. Many have been saved in 
this way. 


What It Costs 


1. The support of a missionary is $500 a year. 


2. The approximate cost of passage’to India is $400, 
and outfit for a missionary together with initial ex- 
penses in India is $400, or a total of $800 as the approx- 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 25 


imate cost of a missionary’s outgoing expense to India 
from the United States or Canada. 

3. The support of an Indian evangelist is from $100 
to $120 a year. 

4. The support of a Bible woman is from $80 to 
$100 a year. 

5. The support of an orphan boy or girl is $30 a year. 

Contributions may be sent to our Treasurer, 


MR. DAVID MAC NAUGHTAN 
Room 37, 153 Institute Place 
Chicago, Illinois. 
*Mr. B. Davidson and wife are personally supported by the First 


Baptist Church of Elyria, O., and we cannot refrain from printing, 
the following from his pen. 


The Missionary Helpers’ Council. 


New Missionaries for India 


Let us look at a small, scattered band of missionaries 
in India, each going out alone with an Indian preacher 
to tell of a loving Saviour to the millions who are in 
the captivity of the devil. The difficulties confronting 
them are great,—prejudice, language, race, heat,—but 
worst of all the fascination and power of sin. There 
is a deep and growing feeling in the hearts of the mis- 
sionaries that they are desperately in need of reinforce- 
ments. ‘They meet together in prayerful conference, 
each tells of the deep need in his field for more work- 
ers, a calculation is made and all agree to pray to the 
Lord of the harvest to send out fifteen more laborers. 

God has been answering prayer. Four of the num- 
ber asked for are now on the field in India, God wil- 
ling, in October of this year (1921). Ten other candi- 
dates have been accepted and we are still praying the 
Lord of the harvest to send them forth. They are: 


26 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Silsbee, Boston. 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thompson, Chicago. 

Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Glover, Los Angeles. 

Miss Schram, Miss DeYoung and Miss Jessie Miller, 
graduates of The Moody Bible Institute. 

Mr. Jesse Ringenberg of the Fort Wayne Bible 
School. 





A Lost Soul 
A heathen man lay dying in his dingy hut in South 
India. The last words he uttered were these, “IT IS 
HARD TO DIE IN THE DARK.” No one had gone 
to tell him of the Light of the world, and thus Christ 
lost one whom He died to redeem. 


A Lost Town 

We have often gone up and down the streets of 
towns in India where were thousands of souls; but not 
one witness for Christ. Hungry crowds have gathered 
and listened intently to the good news, and hearts have 
been moved by the Spirit as Christ was held up before 
them. ‘They have pled with us to stay and teach them 
more or to send preachers to them. We are intending 
to send more preachers when we have sent these ten 
new missionaries forth. It is hard to leave a town, 
A WHOLE TOWN, without Christ, especially when 
the people plead with us to stay ; but we must go to oth- 
er cities, equally needy, for therefore are we sent. 


A Lost District 
From the top of a high hill we have looked across the 
far stretching plains for many miles, and have seen the 
smoke of numerous villages ascending to heaven; but 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 27 


the incense of prayer to God never rises from one heart 
there. O how our Lord’s heart is yearning over these 
heathen multitudes! How He is longing to send mes- 
sengers, and how beautiful upon the mountains are the 
feet of those who bring glad tidings. But what lies be- 
yond the horizon of our hilltop vision? “India is a land 
of far distances,” and a densely peopled country. The 
population of India is as great as that combined of the 
continents‘of North and South America and Africa, 
320 millions, or one-fifth of the entire human race. 
There are more than 200 million souls in India who 
have never heard the name of Jesus, and cannot hear 
of Him until more workers are sent forth. What a plea 
for prayer and Laborers. This old world is tottering 
to its fall, and the only thing worth while is the gather- 
ing out of as many souls as we can. At the Judgment 
Seat of Christ how insignificant will unused money 
look, unused talents, unused time and unused persons. 
Now is the time to use them all; then to receive a glori- 
ous reward of crowns and cities with Christ’s “Well 
One. & 
Results 

In those fields in India where we are co-workers with 
the Lord we have seen thousands leave their idols and 
come to Christ. He has washed them from their vile 
habits and made them clean. He has enlightened their 
ignorance with true knowledge and wisdom. Once they 
went to their heathen temples to worship demons, now 
they assemble in the house of God to worship Him. 
Once they cried to their idol for help, now they pray 
to God alone. Once they sang vile songs about their 
vile gods, now they sing pure hymns of praise to the 
Holy One. Where Christ is known there are churches, 
schools and orphanages, women are liberated and re- 
spected, and children are brought up to know God. 


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BROADCAST TRACT PRESSES, 
CHANG-SHA, HUNAN PROVINCE, Central China 


A work of faith and labor of love in the hope of His 
coming. 

Sixty kinds of sound Gospel tracts are now being 
printed in three languages, Chinese, Miav and Eng- 
lish. These tracts are printed on four American treadle 
presses by converted Chinese boys, the girls also help- 
ing in the counting, folding and bundling. All tracts 
are supplied to workers at cost of paper and ink, plus 
postage. The present price is $1.00 per 1000 tracts, in- 
cluding postage. 

God has greatly blessed these tracts, and from a 
small beginning of 12,000 the first year we have been 
sending out more than a million a year for some 
years. The 1919 issue was 1,511,000, Praise His Name! 

Editions of two to five thousand tracts are printed 
in German dialect and bound and bundled and sent 
to the sections of the fourteen million Miav and Abo- 
riginal tribes in Yunnan and Kweicheo Provinces, 
where there are already 20,000 believers. 


The Faith Orphanage 


Located on a high, healthy, quiet spot, on land 
leased from the city officials in the Eastern edge of the. 
great city of Chang-Sha lies the seven larger or small- 
er buildings of the Orphanage. 

There are some twenty boys and twenty girls, all 
being trained in the study of the Bible, in singing, in 
writing, reading, etc., and also as Christian helpers and 
they have all given God their hearts and are giving 
Him their service. 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 29 


The support comes from voluntary offerings from 
churches and individuals in the United States. 

The work is under the supervision of Bro. Allen N. 
Cameron and wife. Pray for this great work in China. 


30 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


THE BOLIVIAN INDIAN MISSION 


NEW YORK COUNCIL 
SECRETARY: REV. P. M. SPENCER, 309 W. 57th St., N. Y. City 


TREASURER: MR. L. A. WHITTEMORE, 1976 Broadway, N. Y. City 
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: W. M. STRONG, 81 Fulton St., N. Y. City 


Missionaries 
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Allan Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Burrow 
Mr. and Mrs. J. McIntosh Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hollis 
Mr. and Mrs. H. Hogg Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Starnes 


Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shakeshaft 
Sr. Crisologo Barron and Sr. 


ADDRESS OF MISSIONARIES: San Pedro, Charcas, Bolivia, 
: South America 


Origin 

The Bolivian Indian Mission, so far as its human 
side is concerned, originated in a prayer experience of 
two friends in the Missionary Training Home at Ade- 
laide, South Australia. Daily at 3 P.M. they met to 
pray for South America. The Spirit of God came 
upon them at these times in such a way that the half- 
hour prayer-watch agreed upon was lengthened out 
considerably—on several occasions to three hours. Ur- 
gency was laid upon them to pray that a great work 
of preparation be done immediately (7. e., in 1898) in 
the opening of the way for the evangelization of the 
Indians of Bolivia (of whom they knew next to noth- 
ing at that time). That year the Liberal party came 
into power in Bolivia, and its Government has opened 
wide to the Missionaries the door of entrance among 
the Indians. 

. Field 

The field we aim to occupy is that part of the Re- 
public of Bolivia where Indians are found. There are 
about one million Indians in that country, of whom the 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 31 


greater part inhabit the plateau and the eastern slopes 
of the Andes Mountains. It is on these eastern slopes 
that we have opened up work among them. In our 
district the two main elements of the Indian popula- 
tion of Bolivia intermingle, namely, the Quichua and 
Aymara. Weare seeking first to reach the former, i. e., 
the Quichua. 

Bolivia is a republic, and though its Liberal Govern- 
ment has dealt many and heavy blows to Romanism, 
which is the State religion, it yet has been very kind 
to us. Twice Congress voted us a small subsidy, and 
though the sums voted were never received by us, yet 
the good will shown in voting them we appreciate. We 
have received from the Government a quantity of 
school material for Indian schools. 


Growth 


Missionaries have come out to us as follows: In 
1909 five workers reached San Pedro in the month of 
June; in September four more came along. In 1911 
two arrived. In 1912 three more. In 1914 two more. 
In 1915 we received into the Mission our first two 
native workers. In 1917 two more helpers from Great 
Britain reached us. 

“During these years we lost four workers. Two we 
loaned to another Mission, and they stayed loaned 
permanently. Two others were obliged to return home 
broken in health. This eight years’ record is surely 
a good one. 

Basis 

Similar in its constitution to the China Inland Mis- 
sion, with no denominational backing, the Bolivian 
Indian Mission looks to God to give workers and with 


them the funds necessary for their maintainance on the 
field. 


32 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


The needs of the work are laid before God in prayer 
and before His people in the publications of the Mis- 
sion—the Principles and Practice providing for this. 
No one should think of becoming a Missionary with 
the Bolivian Indian Mission who is not prepared to 
look very definitely and directly to God to meet his 
material as he looks to Him to meet his spiritual needs. 

While no guarantee of a fixed salary is given in any 
case yet God has thus far graciously supplied our eve- 
ry need. 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 33 


SOUTH CHINA BOAT MISSION 


Missionaries 
Miss Florence Drew Miss F. Todhunter 
Miss L. Roschinsky Rev. and Mrs. Warren L. Winter 


Care of British P. O., Canton, China 


NATIVE WORKERS IN CANTON 


DR. LAU YING KIT, Votunrary worKER, IN CHARGE OF DISPENSARY. 

LEUNG MO TAK, PREACHER AND TEACHER OF Boys’ ScHOOL. 

HOO SIU HON, PREACHER. 

LAU FOON YUNG, BIBLE WOMAN. 

TOAM TAI KU, Teacuer or Giris’ SCHOOL. 

Home Council 

JOHN W. LANGSTON, Presrpent, Oak Park, Ill. 

REV. ED. DREW, Home SECRETARY, 987 E., 2ond St., Paterson, N. J. 

R. R. WALKER, TREASURER, SOM eveavittest. Chicago, Ill 

EDGAR C. LEWIS, FINANCIAL SECRETARY, 1021 N. Mason Ave., 
Chicago, Ill. 

LILY DENIS, MiSSIGNARY, CORRESPONDENT, 4014 W. Polk St., 
Chicago, Il. 

Rey. C. P. Meeker, Moody Bible Rev. S. M. Andrewson, Britt, Iowa. 
Institute, Chicago, Ill. Casper Stueker, Norwood Park, 

Paul Gieser, Highland Park, III. Ill. 

Gustaf Nelson, Winnetka, Ill. Rey. Wm. McCarrell, Morton Park, 

Eric Nelson, Winnetka, III. Ill. 

A. D. Stone, 4038 Harrison St., Rev. Louis T. Talbot, Oak Park, 
Chicago, II. Til. 

Russell Byrum, Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Rey. J.C. O’Hair, Oak Park, Ill. 

John Cranna, 1215 Monticello Rey. B. E. Clover, Winnetka, Ill. 
Ave., Chicago, -IIl. 


Remittance can be sent either to Mr. R. R. Walker, Treasurer, 510 
South Leavitt St., Chicago, or direct to Canton, China, by New York 
draft or money order, payable to any one of the missionaries. 

WORK AMONG THE BOAT PEOPLE OF 
SOUTH CHINA 


No visitor to Canton can fail to be impressed with 
the great number of boats on its river. It is safe to 
say that Canton has the largest boat population of 
any city in the world, as it has been estimated at 300,- 
000. The boats are of all descriptions, from the mas- 
sive junk, with its high stern and nut-brown sail, down 
to the little sampan. Some of the boats never go out 
of Canton; then again boats come there from all parts 


34 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


of the Province of Kwong Tung. The boats, called 
sampans, are not more than 15 feet long and about 
4 feet wide, and often they are the homes of fam- 
ilies of seven or eight. ‘There is a bamboo cover- 
ing over the top of the boat (so low one cannot stand 
upright under it) and canvas or cloth around the 
side of the boat to keep out the rain and sun. The 
boat people are very poor; luxuries are unknown 
among them; in fact the majority of them find it dif- 
ficult to obtain the necessities of life; indeed, the 
board flooring of their boat serves for bed, table and 
chair. 

The results of the mission to these neglected people, 
as yet have not been very great; it has consisted most- 
ly in sowing the seed day after day, assured that the 
harvest will by and by ripen. The aim has been to 
preach Christ and make Him known, fully assured that 
when men come to know Him, their whole lives will be 
changed. The little church on the water now enrolls 
24 members; the oldest among them is an old grandma, 
75 years of age, and the youngest is one of our school- 
boys, about 12 years of age. 

Our Lord is constantly answering prayers; through 
the kindness of Moody Church and Sunday School, 
Chicago, boat No. 5 has been built and added to the 
fleet and is now in service close to Canton. 

All the work thus far has been carried on in com- 
plete dependence upon God, without personal solicita- 
tion of any kind, and God has honored the faith of 
His servants. 

We thank God for the encouragement He has given 
to us, as a Mission, and we pray that He may be glori- 
fied in all the work as it progresses, and so manifest 
His power that many hundreds of the boat people may 
be brought out of the darkness of heathenism into the 
glorious light of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, our 
Lord. 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 35 


HEART OF AFRICA MISSION 


(International and Interdenominational). 


Co-FounpErs: MR.C.T.STUDD. MR.A. BARCLAY BUXTON. 

Hon. Secretary: MRS. C. T. STUDD, 29 E. 2oth. Street, New 
York City. 

Hon. Treasurer: MR. H. AVELING BAKER. 

HoME OVERSEER: REV. GILBERT A. BARCLAY. 

DEPUTATION SECRETARY: MISS C. J. BRANDON. 

TREASURER FOR AMERICA: DR. GEO. H. DOWKONTT, 113 Ful- 
ton St., New York City. 


Lome RUNG Reis S CAND: PRACTICE. 


1. Our Object. 

The speediest possible fulfilment of the command of 
our Lord Jesus Christ by a definite attempt to evan- 
gelise the remaining unevangelised parts of the earth. 
Sreiviatti24.14.. Psalm 2:83, Acts 1:8> Romans 15:20, 
Zl: 

By “evangelise” we mean that an opportunity of 
hearing and so believing in Jesus Christ as their Sa- 
viour and Lord should be given to every creature. 
SteMatt. 28 19. St..Mark 16:15. 

By “unevangelised parts” we mean those peoples of 
the earth who have not yet had the aforementioned op- 
portunity and who are still outside the reasonable reach 
of existing missionary effort. 


2. Our Reason for Existence. 

The large number of nations and tribes in the Heart 
of Africa, in Central Asia, in South America, in Arabia, 
in the Malay Archipelago, and other places, who have 
never yet heard of the Lord Jesus, and are not included 
within the immediate programme of any existing So- 
ciety. 


36 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


3. Our Doctrinal Basis, commonly called “The Five 
Smooth Stones.” 


(1) Absolute Faith in the Deity of each Person of 
the Trinity. 

(2) Absolute Belief in the full Inspiration of the 
Old and. New Testament Scriptures. 

(3) Vow to know and to preach none other save Je- 
sus Christ and Him Crucified. 

(4) Obedience to Christ’s command to love all who 
love the Lord Jesus sincerely without respect 
of persons, and to love all men. 

(5) Absolute Faith in the Will, Power, and Provi- 
dence of God to meet our every need in His 
service. 


4. Our Basis in Practice. 


(1) We believe in the Bible as the only rule of con-. 
duct and practice. Every practice is tested by the 
plain and simple reading of the Scriptures as a whole. 
We refuse to be broader than the Bible, but equally we 
refuse to be narrower. 


(2) We believe in the Holy Spirit as the Teacher, 
Keeper, and Guide, not only of ourselves, but also of 
our converts; and therefore we believe in trusting our 
Christians with responsibility as soon as they show by 
holy conversation and spiritual insight that they are 
ruled and led by the Holy Spirit. 

(3) We believe in ordination by men when coupled 
with that of God, but most of all in the ordination of 
God as attested by deeds done in the power and wisdom 
of the Holy Ghost. 


(4) We recognise only one Name—JESUS; only 
one Denomination—those who love our Lord in sin- 
cerity, and only one Nationality—sons of God, or chil- 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 37 


dren of Heaven. We therefore admit no National or 
Denominational prejudices. 

(5) We wish to co-operate cordially with all other 
Missionary Societies. We regard our work as sup- 
plementary to their’s, and we do not wish to divert 
men or means from them, but rather to assist them in 
any possible way. 

(6) We trust in no carnal wisdom or strength to 
fulfil our object, but only in the Holy Ghost; and by 
humility, obedience, prayer, and faith we shall ever 
seek His aid and co-operation. 


5. Our Dominating Characteristic—Self-Denial and 
Sacrifice. 
(1) Our Motto. 

“Tf Jesus Christ be God and died for me, no 
sacrifice can be too great for me to make 
Toreliitiace 

(2) Our Appeal 
is for Sacrifice, as opposed to easy giving, 
easy praying, easy service. 


6. Our Funds. 

The Crusade is supported entirely by the freewill 
offerings of God’s people, and not by the subscriptions 
of a few rich persons. We make no appeal for funds, * 
nor do we take up collections at any of our meetings. 
This does not necessarily mean that we never urge in 
a general way the duty of giving to the Lord’s work. 

We guarantee no fixed salary, but every member of 
the Mission, whether at home or abroad, looks to God 
only for the supply of all temporal needs. Therefore, 
though workers may be assisted financially in respect 
of their outfits, passages, or support, their expectation 
must be from God. Allowances will be paid on the 


38 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


Field through the Field Overseer, and at home through 
the Home Overseer. These allowances will start from 
the date of arrival. Outfit and stores supplied by the 
Mission may not be disposed of without permission 
from the Field Overseer. 

Debt cannot be incurred by the Mission under any 
circumstances. 

The Accounts are strictly kept, regularly audited, 
and published annually. 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 39 


SAN PEDRO MISSION 
To the Indians of Argentine and Bolivia 


SOUTH AMERICA 


An Interdenominational Mission, on Faith Lines 


FouNDER AND Director: MR. JOHN LINTON, San Antonio del 
Parapeti, Cordillera, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, S. A. 
SECRETARY-TREASURER: REV. R. V. BINGHAM, 858 College Street, 
Toronto, Can. 
ee MISS ANNA STECKLEY, Bethesda, 
nt. 


Missionaries 
Mr. and Mrs. John Linton Miss Constance Coomber 
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Easdale Miss Mary E..Lagar 
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. E. Story Mr. and Mrs. Heycock 


The San Pedro Mission to the Indians of South 
America was founded almost twenty years ago by the 
present Field Director Mr. John Linton. Mr. Linton 
was led to begin work among the Chiriguano Indians— 
a tribe hitherto untouched by the Gospel. 

The home of this tribe is in Bolivia but work was 
centered in the town of San Pedro, Argentine owing 
to the presence there of large numbers of Chiriguanos 
who come down to work in the sugar plantations. 
Churches have now been established at San Pedro and 
Calle Legua and hundreds of Indians have been led to 
know the Saviour Jesus Christ. 

The present missionary staff consists of ten mission- 
aries and one candidate under appointment. (Names 
above). 

Mr. Linton is at present doing pioneer work in San 
Antonio in Bolivia among the Chiriguano Indians 
there. 


40 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


The San Pedro Mission is an interdenominational 
mission along faith lines. Full information but no 
solicitation is our policy. 

The Director on the Field is Mr. John Linton, the 
Secretary-Treasurer, Rev. R. V. Bingham, 850 College 
St., Toronto and the Home Director Rey. John Linton 
34 Lasalle Road, Verdun, Quebec. 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 4] 


THE RUSSIAN BIBLE 
AND EVANGELIZATION SOCIETY 


Headquarters, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, N. Y. 


The Russian Bible and Evangelization Society was 
founded on November 17, 1919, in New York City to 
meet the need of Russia and other Slavonic and Greek 
Catholic countries. The society is non-sectarian, and 
is based on the only foundation, Jesus Christ. “For oth- 
er foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, 
which is Jesus Christ,” and it is serving to make known 
“the whole counsel of God” as revealed in the Word 
of God. 

Our work covers this immense field: 

Russia (old), 185,000,000; Roumania, 15,000,000; 
Bulgaria, 5,000,000; Jugo-Slavia (including Serbia), 
15,500,000; Czecho-Slovakia, 13,500,000; Greece, 5,- 
000,000; Galicia, 8,200,000; Afghanistan, 6,000,000; in 
all about 250,000,000 people, including 9,000,000 Jews. 

All these millions of precious souls are ready as nev- 
er before for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and it is our 
object to evangelize them and to supply them with the 
Holy Scriptures and Christian literature in this gener- 
ation. To-day it is the responsibility as well as the 
great privilege of Christian people to make the Gos- 
pel known in these lands which have been so long neg- 
lected. Doors, once closed, are now open wide to the 
truth of the Gospel, and multitudes are perishing, 
ignorant of the Word of Life. 

Urgent appeals come to us from these countries for 
many Christian workers. The society has a number 
of workers now in active service, but hundreds are 


42 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


needed in this vast field. It is our purpose to engage 
competent preachers and teachers to take up evan- 
gelistic work, organize Bible classes and prayer circles, 
and to give the children of God pastoral care. The 
Jews in Slavonic countries have suffered greatly. We 
want to reach without delay these 9,000,000 distressed 
souls with the Gospel, their only hope. 

We want to place the Bible in every home, school, and 
public institution in the countries comprising our field. It 
is generally thought that the people of Russia are for 
the most part illiterate. This is not the case, however, 
for a large percentage of them can read, although they 
cannot write. Millions have never seen a Bible. There 
is intense hunger and thirst for the Word of God 
among them. But Bibles are extremely scarce,—in 
most places they cannot be obtained. ‘The establish- 
ment of a Bible printing plant on the field is the most 
important factor in meeting this great need. By means 
of a printing plant Bibles could be produced several 
times cheaper than we can now secure them, and in 
quantity sufficient to supply these hungry people. 

Little is being done for the evangelization of Rus- 
sians and other Slavs in this country. We are seeking 
to give them the Word of God. For this purpose a 
worker has been engaged who will visit Russian com- 
munities throughout the United States and Canada, 
preaching the Word of God, and distributing Scrip- 
tures and tracts. 

With thankful hearts we acknowledge God’s bless- 
ing and guidance through our first year. Our workers 
in a vigorous endeavor to reach these souls in dark- 
ness are constantly occupied with evangelistic meet- 
ings and personal work, and they are also holding Bible 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 43 


conferences, and organizing Bible classes for the in- 
struction of the children of God. Bibles, New Testa- 
ments, and Gospels in different languages have been 
distributed. In this country conferences and meetings 
have been held in interest of this work, and many 
prayer circles have been established in the United 
States and Canada. The society was founded with 
much prayer. Before its foundation, many were pray- 
ing for this work. Unceasing prayer is now being of- 
fered to God in prayer circles and by individuals 
throughout the world on behalf of this work. We are 
making our needs known to the Lord and to His peo- 
ple for hundreds of laborers, millions of copies of 
Scriptures, and for the maintenance of workers now on 
the field. We especially request the prayers of Chris- 
~ tian people for these needy multitudes. Pray for these 
fields which are “white unto the harvest.” Prayer cir- 
cles are a source of much blessing in this work. “If 
ye shall ask anything in My Name, that will I do.” 

The work of the society is supported entirely by the 
free-will offerings of Christian people. 

Recent news of our work is published in our maga- 
zine “The Russian Harvest Field.” 

Information concerning the work may be secured by 
writing the General Secretary-Director, G--Pertele- 
oriteh-Raud, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, N. Y. 


44 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE 
690 Eighth Avenue, New York City 


The Christian and Missionary Alliance is an unsec- 
tarian society carrying on missionary work in. nearly 
all the great heathen lands of the world. 


1—Its Beginning. 

Its founder was Rev. A. B. Simpson, D.D., to whom 
God gave the vision, inspiration and faith for a new 
missionary movement, on simple lines of organization, 
but of a deeply spiritual and aggressive character. 


2—Its Doctrinal Stand. 


The Alliance stands unequivocally for old fashioned 
orthodoxy—the inspiration and inerrancy of the Scrip- 
tures, the Deity and vicarious atonement of Christ, the 
absolute need of regeneration, the eternally lost con- 
dition of all who are out of Christ. It teaches the Four- 
fold Gospel of Christ as Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer 
and Coming King. It puts spiritual qualifications first 
in its selection of missionary candidates, emphasizing 
the need of entire consecration and the enduement 
of the Holy Spirit for a life of victory and service. 


3—Its Missionary Aim. 

To follow out Christ’s last commission, “Go ye into 
all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature,” 
believing that the task of world evangelization is the 
one great business of the Church, taking precedence 
to every other thing, and that the world-wide witness- 
ing of the Gospel, with the object of gathering out from 
among all nations “a people for His Name,” has a vital 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 45 


bearing upon the “blessed hope” of Christ’s second 
coming. 


4—Its Missionary Policy. 

Not to duplicate the work of other societies in any 
field, but, like the Apostle Paul, to press into “the re- 
gions beyond” and carry the Gospel to the darkest and 
most destitute parts of the whole world. 


5—Its Missionary Method. 

Pre-eminently evangelistic, spending its strength of 
men and money in direct, aggressive and widespread 
evangelism; developing the spiritual life and activity 
of the converts by pastoral care and Bible teaching; 
and preparing the native churches for ultimate self- 
maintenance and self-propagation, by means of Pre- 
paratory and Bible Schools for the training of evan- 
gelists, teachers and Biblewomen. 


6—Its Missionary Fields. 

These at present include:—India (Provinces of 
Berar, Khandesh and Gujarat), China (Provinces of 
Kwangsi, Anhwei, Hunan, Hupeh and Kansu, and 
City of Shanghai), Tibet (Province of Amdo), French 
Indo-China (States of Tonkin, Annam and Cochin- 
China), Japan (Province of Hiroshima), Philippines 
(Island of Mindanao), Palestine (Jerusalem and 
Southern Palestine), Africa (Belgian and Portuguese 
Congo, Sierra Leone and French Guinea), South 
America (Argentina, Chile and Ecuador), West Indies 
(Porto Rico and Jamaica). 

In these fields there are more than 40,000,000 souls 
who are wholly dependent upon Alliance missionaries 
for their only chance to hear the Gospel. 


46 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


7—Its Missionary Record. 

The Alliance has been used of God as an effective 
pioneer agency in opening up a number of totally neg- 
lected fields, including Kwangsi, Hunan and Southern 
Kansu Provinces in China, the Southern Philippines, 
Portuguese Congo, the Kuranko country of Sierra 
Leone, and large sections of Ecuador, Chile and Argen- 
tina in South America. It built the first Protestant 
churches in Venezuela and Ecuador, has effected a 
fruitful opening among the Mapuche Indians of Chile, 
and is now seeking to reach the totally unevangelized 
savage Indians in the eastern portion of Ecuador. It 
occupies three stations within the northeastern border 
of Tibet, and is as yet the only Protestant missionary 
society working among the 18,000,000 benighted souls 
of French Indo-China. It has recently opened its 
first station in hitherto unoccupied French Guinea, 
and is at present taking active steps to enter French 
Congo and to extend its Palestine work across Jordan 
into Arabia. 


8—Its Missionary Fruits. 

Through this society’s efforts in its sixteen widely 
scattered fields it is estimated that at least one or two 
million heathen souls have been brought for the first 
time under the sound of the Gospel. Up to the end. 
of 1919, 17,356 had been baptized upon clear evidence 
of repentance from sin and faith in the Saviour. There 
were 493 stations and out-stations, 125 organized 
churches with nearly 12,000 baptized adult members, 
8,704 enrolled in Sunday Schools, 7,414 in primary 
schools, 886 in middle boarding schools, and 146 in 
Bible training schools. During 1919, 2,181 received 
baptism and 3,287 others professed conversion and 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 47 


were under instruction at the end of the year, with a 
view to early baptism. 


9—Its Missionary Staff. 

The society now has 350 missionaries and 700 or 
more native workers. Fifty new missionaries have 
been sent out during 1920, but even this reinforcement 
is quite inadequate to keep pace with the multiplying 
open doors and opportunities which are confronting on 
almost every field, and more recruits—especially young 
men of high quality and true consecration—are being 
prayerfully sought. 


10—Its Missionary Support. 


The work is carried on in humble and prayerful de- 

pendence upon God for His support through the vol- 
untary offerings of His people. The society does not 
incur debt, borrow money or make personal solicitation 
of funds. The needs and opportunities of the work 
are set forth in conventions and by printed reports and 
leaflets for the information of God’s people, and the 
duty and privilege of Christian stewardship in money 
is duly emphasized. 
' The missionaries are guaranteed no fixed salaries, but 
go to their fields cheerfully undertaking to unite with 
the board at home in trusting the Lord for the supply 
of their every need. Moderate living allowances on 
the pro rata principle are disbursed month by month 
as the funds received by the board permit. The entire 
work is administered and conducted on a careful and 
economical basis which ensures contributions reaching 
as far as possible in the actual work of making known 
the Gospel and winning souls abroad. 

Any further information will be cheerfully given, as- 
signments of workers made for prayer or support, dep- 


48 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


utational visits arranged when practicable, and ap- 
plications by missionary candidates considered, if com- 
munications are addressed to the Foreign Secretary. 
Christian and Missionary Alliance, 690 Eighth Avenue, 
New York City. Contributions may be sent to the 
Treasurer at same address. 


SPECIAL STATEMENT 


While the Missionary Helpers’ Union stands uncom- 
promisingly for immersion only, as setting forth the 
Gospel in symbol, yet we are listing the following faith 
missions which do generally, but not exclusively, prac- 
tice immersion. 

These missions stand with us on our doctrinal be- 
liefs, published on pages 17 and 18; they send forth 
many Baptist and other immersionist missionaries, and 
these need our, at least, heartiest support. 


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MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 51 


BELGIAN GOSPEL MISSION 


Conducted by 


RALPH C. NORTON MRS. RALPH C. NORTON 
Philadelphia Address, 1031 Walnut Street 
Brussels Address, 17 Rue du Gouvernement Provisoire 


C. G. TRUMBULL, Treasurer 
1031 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 
Editor of The Sunday School Times 


The Belgian Gospel Mission is the direct outgrowth 
of the work done in the army under the title of the 
British and Allied Soldiers Evangelistic Campaign. 
Ralph C. and Edith F. Norton were for ten years as- 
sociated with Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman in his evangelis- 
tic tours around the world, and at the beginning of 
the war they resigned their positions with him and 
began work in the British camps. 

Soon their attention was turned to the Belgian army, 
whose soldiers were coming to London on furlough, 
and they learned that no Christian work was being done 
with these men. Their work for these Belgian soldiers 
began in the simplest way by the distribution of Scrip- 
tures to the men in London on furlough. These men 
in turn went back to the trenches and began to declare 
their faith in Jesus Christ and sought to win their com- 
rades to Christ, particularly by the distribution of 
Scriptures, until practically every man in the Belgian 
army heard about this work, and some fifteen thousand 
or more men signed a pledge to carry the Scriptures 
and read them daily. 

When the armistice was declared and the Belgian 
soldiers were back at their homes they began to write 
begging these workers to come to Belgium saying, 
“We have no one to continue this work among us, and 
surely now you are not going to leave us alone.” After 
much prayer these two servants of God felt led to go 


52 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


into Belgium where they arrived in December 1918. 
The following June they opened their first Gospel hall 
in Brussels and from the very first there were remark- 
able evidences that this work was of God. Since that 
time they have opened some eight centers of evangeli- 
zation in Belgium and these halls are crowded with 
people seeking Christ. 

In September 1919 they opened a Bible School, 
which began with five students and which now has 
some thirty-five young men and women preparing 
themselves for Christian work. ‘These students are 
trained in practical work as they have constant as- 
signments and they are used for preaching, Sunday 
School teaching and particularly for the distribution 
of Gospels and Testaments from village to vil- 
lage and house to house. Likewise there is a group of 
colporteurs and preachers employed who are not pu- 
pils at the school, who do the same work, and the zeal 
with which the people in Belgium are seeking to se- 
cure a copy of the Scriptures is almost beyond belief to 
those who have known the bitter attitude that the 
priests and people of that land have always assumed 
toward the reading of the Word. They are attempt- 
ing to systematically distribute the Word in that land 
and the final goal is to put the Word of God into every 
home in Belgium. 

Lately a letter was received from the village of St. 
Nicholas, from two men who have been converted 
through reading one of the mission’s tracts. Some 
Christian workers were sent there for open air meet- 
ings and there have been as many as six or seven hun- 
dred people listening to the Gospel in a single street 
meeting; and three thousand Testaments have been 
sold in that village, more than one for every house 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 53 


there. And as far as is known there was not a 
single Scripture in that town previously. This is true 
of many other villages, as the colporteurs have visited 
some fifty villages this summer in Belgium. 

Likewise the tent work, something new in Belgium, 
has been peculiarly successful as the tent has been 
erowded with hundreds of people and scores have pro- 
fessed to accept Christ. The hour for Belgium has ar- 
rived. She is reaching out for the Gospel of the Son 
of God, and upon the people of God in America rests 
the responsibility as to whether these men shall know 
the truth. 


54 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


THE MILDMAY MISSION TO THE JEWS 
ion. Direcror AND TREASURER: 
REV. SAMUEL HINDS WILKINSON. 
Skalom, Brentwood, Essex. (Telephone: 22, Brentwood.) 
Assist. Director: REV. ELIJAH BENDOR SAMUEL, 
1, Lynford Gardens, Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex. 
Mission Centre, Book Store and Offices: 


CENTRAL HALL, PHILPOT STREET, LONDON, E. 1. 
Telegraphic Address: ‘“Cuovav Epo London.” 
Telephone: 13609 Central. 


TRUSTEES OF MISSION PROPERTY 


Joseph Cheal, Esq. Ernest Shaw, Esq. 
Alberta A. Head, Esq. Wm. H. Stentiford, Esq. 
F, W. Miller, Esq. John Terry, Esq. 


Samuel Hinds Wilkinson. 


ADVISORY COUNCILS 
For General Work 


The Trustees. Pastor William Fuller Gooch. 
The Directors. H. D. Wilkinson, Esq. 
Pastor D. J. Findlay. Mrs. Rocha. 

For Work in Russia 
The Trustees. J. S. Gray, Esq. 
The Directors. Mr. Max I. Reich. 
Rev. Henry Goodman. Dr. John G. Rocha. 


John Wilkinson, Esq. 


Soticitors: Messrs. MARSHALL & PRIDHAM, 26, Theobald’s 
Road, Gray’s Inn Road, London, W.C. 1. 


AupiTors: Messrs. HILL. VELLACOTT sco. 2, Broad Street 
Place, Finsbury Circus, London, Gy 


AccountANT: MR. JOHN SCUDDER. 
Origin 

The Mission was founded by the late Rev. Joun 
WILKINSON, on June Ist, 1876. 


Sphere 


To Evangelize the Jews of London. To undertake 
Missionary Journeys in the provinces and in other 
countries. To circulate the Scriptures and Tracts con- 
taining Salvation truth. T’o maintain Bible Depots 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 55 


and Mission Centres in Russia and elsewhere. To 
minister to Jewish victims of persecution, war, want 
and sickness. 


Modes of Work 


In London by the Medical Mission, Sewing Classes, 
Night Schools, Gospel Meetings and visitation ; also by 
Street Evangelization and the use of the post where 
advisable; the Home for Jewish Children and the Con- 
valescent Home for Jewesses. Abroad by Agencies in 
Russia and in Morocco. 


Supplies 

The Mission does not canvass nor advertise for mon- 
ey, but waits on God to move His people to send vol- 
untary offerings for the support of the Mission, and 
also for the personal support of the Director who takes 
no salary. 

The Rev. Samuel Hinds Wilkinson, The Rev. Eli- 
jah B. Samuel or others will be pleased to address 
meetings by invitation, to set forth the work of the Mis- 
sion. 


Needs 


The needs of the mission in supporting workers, 
maintaining institutions, purchasing and distributing 
Scriptures and tracts and administering relief to the 
needy are about £12,000 a year. It needs also much 
and constant prayer for guidance and blessing in every 
detail of the work. 

Contributions towards any part of the work will be 
eratefully received by the Director and Treasurer, 
Rev. Samuel H. Wilkinson, Central Hall, Philpot 
Street, E. 1, or at “Shalom”, Brentwood, Essex. 


56 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


SOUTH AFRICA GENERAL MISSION 


First Presipent: THE LATE REV. ANDREW MURRAY, D.D. 


AMERICAN HOME COUNCIL 
New York 


32, Court Street, Brooklyn, New York. 
Cable Address: “Saggmis, Brooklyn.” Telephone: 4859 Main. 


MR. WILLIAM PHILLIPS HALL (PRESIDENT). 
REV. J. G. SNYDER (VicE-PRESIDENT), 

REV. WM. H. HENDRICKSON (SECRETARY). 
MR. PAUL H, GRAEF (CHarrMan, Ex. Com.). 
REV. GEORGE H. DOWKONTT, M.D. 

MR. W. W. KOUWENHOVEN (TREASURER). 
MR. E. D. GARNSEY (Recorpinc SECRETARY). 
JOHN C. MEDD, M.D. 

REV. LEWIS S. CHAFER. 

FreLtp SECRETARY—REV. ARTHUR J. BOWEN. 


ALL UNITED States AND CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD BE 
ADDRESSED TO THE AMERICAN SECRETARY. 


A Call for the Evangelization of the Natives of 
Portuguese East Africa 

The South Africa General Mission, which began its 
work in South Africa in 1889, is an interdenominational 
Mission working for the evangelization of south and 
south central Africa. Its first President was. Dr. An- 
drew Murray, whose writings are well known in Amer- 
ica. 

The Mission has undertaken the responsibility of 
giving the Gospel to certain unevangelized areas. 
Among the different sections of African territory that 
have been assigned to it for evangelization is one in 
Portuguese East Africa, lying directly to the east of 
our Rusitu Station in Southern Rhodesia. One of the 
principal reasons for opening work in Rhodesia so near 
the Portuguese border was that that territory might 
be evangelized from Rusitu. It has become more and 
more clear as the years have gone by that hundreds of 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 57 


native kraals along the banks of the Rusitu, Mutsapa, 
Buzi and Revue Rivers can never be fully evangelized 
unless work is opened in Portuguese Territory itself. 


Object 
The object of the Mission is to fulfil the Lord’s com- 
mand—*“to preach the Gospel to every creature,’ and 
to promote Scriptural holiness amongst believers. 


Character 

The mission is interdenominational, and does not im- 
pose upon workers or converts any special form of 
Church government, but it urges upon all the value and 
importance of fellowship with a Christian Church 
where the spiritual life may be nourished and _ in- 
creased. 

Administration 

The Administration of the affairs of the Mission is 
vested in England and America in Home Councils, and 
in Africa in an Executive working in connection with 
a General Conference. : 


Expenditure 

The Executive in Africa, working in connection with 
General Conference on lines sanctioned by English and 
American Councils, are responsible for the proper dis- 
bursement of all funds entrusted to the Mission for 
work in Africa. 

Support 

As regards funds—the Mission is chiefly supported 
by freewill offerings, depending upon God’s promise. 
—Phil. 4:19. 

Should funds be forthcoming, each worker who is 
dependent, either in whole or part, upon Mission funds 


58 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


for his or her support will receive monies at a certain 
fixed rate per annum, according to his or her needs and 
position in the Mission; it should, however, be clearly 
understood that no stipends are guaranteed. The Mis- 
sion circulates among God’s people information as to 
the work in order to elicit Christian sympathy and co- 
operation, and believes that if workers be right with 
God He will withhold no good thing, so that empty 
coffers will be a call to humiliation, heart-searching, 
and prayer, rather than to questionable means of rais- 
ing funds. 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 59 


CHINA INLAND MISSION 


Home Director ror NortH AMERICA, 
HENRY W. FROST, Princeton, N. J. 


General Centres 
U.S., 237 School Lane, Philadelphia 


ROGER B. WHITTLESEY, Secretary 
Canada, 507 Church Street, Toronto 
E. A. BROWNLEE, Secretary 


Local Centres 
1936 Keefer St., Vancouver, B.C. 


CHARLES THOMSON, ReEprESENTATIVE 
701 Knickerbocker Building, Los Angeles, Cal. 
RALPH D. SMITH, RepresEenraTIVE 
598 Princess Ave., London, Ont. 


F. A. STEVEN, ReEprESENTATIVE 
6506 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor, N. J. 


FREDERIC H. NEALE, RepresentaTIvE 
Inquiries, offers of service, donations, or orders for publications 


may be directed to any of the above. 
Origin ; 

Formed in 1865, “under a deep sense of China’s pres- 
sing need,” by Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, M.R. C. S., after 
finding that existing societies felt unable to grant men 
and means for work beyond the coast provinces then 
open. 

Aim 

To traverse and occupy China’s INLAND provinces, 
giving the Gospel to every creature and building up a 
native church, in obedience to the command of our Lord 
(Matthew 28:19) and constrained by the love of Christ 
and the hope of His coming. 


Character 


Interdenominational, international, evangelical, evan- 
gelistic, and supported by free-will offerings. Duly 


60 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


qualified workers are accepted irrespective of nation- 
ality and without restriction as to denomination, pro- 
vided there is soundness in the faith on all fundamental 
truths. 

Equipment (Jan. 1, 1920) 


Missionaries, 1,081 ; paid Chinese helpers, 1,991 ; vol- 
untary Chinese helpers, 1,429; stations, 242; outsta- 
tions, 1,585; chapels, 1,803; hospitals, 18; dispensaries, 
102; native schools, 544; schools at Chefoo for mission- 
aries’ children, with 300 pupils; executive and supply 
offices in Shanghai; superintendents and local secreta- 
ries over districts throughout China. 


Financial Plan 
The Mission does not go into debt. It guarantees no 
income to the missionaries, but ministers to each as the 
funds sent in will allow; thus all the workers are ex- 
pected to depend on God alone for temporal supplies. 
Neither collections nor personal solicitation of money 
is authorized. 
Income (1919) 
N. America, $151,878.11; Great Britain, $294,116.86; 
Australasia, $36,729.67; China, $73,213.30; Associate 
Missions, $155,719.89; total, $711,657.87. . 


Results 
Churches 1103; baptized in 1919, 6,531; communi- 
cants in fellowship 52,390; others under regular in- 
struction 52,917 (1919) baptized since commencement 
77,078. 
Prospects 
This is a time of continued seed sowing, for there are 
large districts still without the word of God, printed or 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 61 


preached, but it is also a blessed time of reaping. Large 
numbers of Chinese Christians are laboring with the 
missionaries for the salvation of their people, and the 
changed attitude of the upper classes opens wonderful 
opportunities before the church of Christ. 


Need 


New missionaries are greatly needed, and the mis- 
sion invites correspondence from earnest young men 
and women who desire to serve God in China. Informa- 
tion about necessary preparation and procedure will be 
sent to those who desire it. 


Request 

The China Inland Mission earnestly desires the 
prayers of God’s people for the native and foreign 
workers and for the millions of Chinese, that many may 
be saved and sanctified. The annual card of member- 
ship in the C.I. M. Prayer Union will be sent free of 
charge on request to all who desire to be united with 
us in a definite ministry of prayer on behalf of China. 
(Write the Prayer Union Secretary, 507 Church St., 
Toronto, Ontario. ) 


62 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


SUDAN INTERIOR MISSION 


(Interdenominational) 


Mission Homre—860 College Street, Toronto, Canada 
Telephone College 3746 


Mission OFrFIcEe: 858 College Street, Toronto. ‘Telephone College 
4135. Cable Address—Evangel Toronto.” 


GENERAL Director: REV. R. V. BINGHAM. 

Hon. Treasurer: E. H. DICKSON. 

TREASURER: ERNEST JONES. 

SECRETARY: R. MCGREGOR. 

Hon. TREAS. FoR GREAT Britain: A. S. WATSON, 3 Hackins Hey, 
Liverpool. 

FrieLtp Director: G. PLAYFAIR, Minna, N. Nigeria, West Africa. 

FIELD SECRETARY: DR. A. P. STIRRETT, Minna, N. Nigeria, West 
Africa. 

FACTS ABOUT THE SUDAN 

1. The Sudan is as large as India, Germany, France 

and the British Isles combined, or as large as the 


whole of Europe minus Russia. 


2. The population of the Sudan, formerly estimated 
at from sixty to ninety millions, has been reduced by 
slave-raiding wars to not more than fifty millions. 


3. The whole region has only about 150 mission- 
aries, the greater number of whom have but recently 
gone to the field. 


4. Northern Nigeria, our special field, is the centre 
of the vast Sudan, and is the most densely populated 
region of Africa, still having large cities without a mis- 
sionary. : 

5. It contains the most enterprising African race, 
the Hausas, who travel and trade throughout the 
whole of North Africa. 


6. It presents a wide open door for the Gospel, mis- 
sionary operations being facilitated by British control, 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 63 


ensuring stable government, with postal and tele- 
graphic communication. 

7. The pagan tribes are urging us to send them mis- 
sionaries, and unless we respond to their appeal they 
will go over to Mohammedanism, whose teachers are 
flocking in since the British conquest. 

8. Five out of the twelve great provinces of Nor- 
thern Nigeria have not a single mission station or mis- 
sionary. 

9. For 1,500 miles the Niger flows through a region 
where Christ is not known. 

10. If we were to send out one new missionary every 
day, and give to each one a parish of ten thousand peo- 
ple, it would take over thirteen years before the Sudan 
would be occupied. 


FACTS ABOUT THE SUDAN 
INTERIOR MISSION 


1. The Sudan Interior Mission is a union effort of 
Christians of all denominations, organized to meet ‘the 
spiritual crisis in the Sudan. 

2. It is international in scope, having co-operative 
committees in three different countries and having on 
its missionary staff representatives of five different na- 
tions. 

3. The mission is the outgrowth of the first pioneer 
expedition that reached the heart of the Sudan in 1893, 
led by Messrs. Gowans, Kent and Bingham. 

4. Its doctrinal basis is evangelical and it accepts 
and sends forth consecrated workers from any church, 
sound in the fundamental truths of the Bible. 


64 | MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


5. It is supported by the voluntary offerings of 
God’s people, its missionaries and home staff having 
no guaranteed salary. 


6. It has eighteen stations with a number of out- 
stations already established, and several other towns 
are about to be occupied. 

7. It is operating in nine different languages and 
translating the Scriptures and other literature into 
these tongues. 

8. A number of the missionaries speak the native 
languages fluently, and already first-fruits have been 
gathered from several of the tribes. 

9. The mission places the greatest emphasis upon 
its evangelistic work, believing that all other means 
must be subservient to the one great purpose of giv- 
ing the Gospel to all. 


For further information address 
THE SECRETARY 
860 College Street Toronto 


MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 65 


AFRICA INLAND MISSION 


CHARLES E. HURLBURT, GENERAL DIRECTOR 


Home CounciLt FoR NortH AMERICA 


REV. REUBEN A. TORREY, D.D., PReEsIpENT. 
ORSON R. PALMER, DrrectTor For N. A. 
REV. OLIVER M. FLETCHER, SEcretary. 
JOHN L. STEELE, Treasurer. 

W. L. DEGROFF, DEpuTATION WORKER. 


The Africa Inland Mission is an interdenomina- 
tional, international faith mission, organized by men 
from different evangelical bodies, with the purpose of 
taking the Gospel to the unevangelized fields of Africa, 
and to the remote places where other mission boards 
could not or would not go. 

The work was begun in 1895 with the plan of estab- 
lishing stations along the high altitudes of the country 
into and along the heart of the continent. 

The workers of the Africa Inland Mission believe 
that they should depend through prayer upon God 
alone for the supply of candidates for the field, for 
money needed to carry on the work and for their in- 
dividual needs, without hinting and suggesting to men, 
and without making specific needs public. 


The mission at present is working in four territories: 


Kenia District, (formerly British E. Africa) 

Tanganyika Territory (formerly German East 
Africa). 

Fast Belgian Congo. 

Northeast Belgian Congo. 


66 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


American Council 

Charles E. Hurlburt, General Director. 

Rev. Reuben A. Torrey, D.D., President. 

Orson R. Palmer, Home Director. 

John L. Steele, Treasurer, 

Rev. Oliver M. Fletcher, Secretary. 

There are also Councils in the British Isles, Austra- 
lia and South Africa. 


What God Hath Wrought 


The missionaries who have gone forth at the call of 
God are now working in 20 different tribes and in as 
many languages. Forty-one main stations have been 
established and manned by white workers, and a goodly 
number of outstations are under the oversight of na- 
tive teachers and evangelists. The Scripture is being 
translated into the native tongue, churches are being 
established, school work carried on and necessary in- 
dustrial training given. 

The transforming power of the Gospel is being mani- 
fested in Africa as in all parts of the world where it 
is preached in the love of Jesus and the power of the 
Holy Spirit. 

Literature and full information concerning the mis- . 
sion and its work may be had by writing 


The Africa Inland Mission 
356 Bridge St., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 


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THE CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSION 


Dei oCOtm a DREAs, ebariss Lexas- 
Evangelical—Interdenominational 


The purpose of this Mission is to “Preach the Gospel to every 
creature” in Central America. 


Supported by Voluntary Contributions 
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: 


DR. C11. SCOFIELD, FounpeR, Douglaston, L. I., N. Y. 
LUTHER REES, CuHairman, Paris, Texas. 

Dwi CO Me lressuRER, Paris, Lexas. 

THOS. J. JONES, Secretary, 804 Sumpter Bldg., Dallas, Texas. 
W. L. PETTINGILL, 1528 W. 7th St., Wilmington, Del. 

R. D. SMITH, 643 S. Olive St., Los. Angeies, Cal. 

MISS MILDRED SPAIN, Assistant To Treasurer, Paris, Texas. 


ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF THE MISSION 


In the summer of 1888 the spiritual destitution of the 
five republics of Central America was brought to the 
attention of Mr. Scofield, and he began to be burdened 
for the souls of the millions without the Gospel, so 
near to our own land. It became a conviction with 
him that God would surely hold the Christians of the 
United States to a stern reckoning for these perishing 
ones unaccountably neglected. 

It seemed to him also, that the Divine plan of cam- 
paign for the evangelization of the world laid down in 
Acts 1:8, forbade the passing over of near regions un- 
evangelized to carry the Gospel to the far off lands. 

Becoming convinced that none of the denomina- 
tional boards were prepared to open a new Mission in 
the near future, he, after much prayer, put the whole 
matter before three Christian business men, FE. M. 
Powell, Luther Rees, (who has since entered the min- 
istry,) and W. A. Nason, all of Dallas, Texas. As a re- 
sult the Central American Mission was formed Novem- 


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Ber 14th, 1890, with Mr. Scofield as Secretary and E. M. 
Powell, Esq., as Treasurer. Mr. Rees was made chair- 
man of the executive council. In 1893 Hon. D. H. 
Scott, of Paris, Texas, was added to the council, and 
accepted the onerous and of course unpaid office of 
treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell the first mission- 
aries, were appointed in January, 1891. 

The following bases are fundamental. 


I. Doctrinal. 


We believe in one God, revealed as existing in three 
equal persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; in the 
death of Jesus Christ for our sins as a true substitute ; 
in salvation by faith alone without works; in good 
works as the fruit of salvation; in the Scriptures of 
the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired in 
the original writings, and in a future state of unending 
blessedness for the saved and unending conscious suf- 
fering for the lost. 


II. Practical. 


The mission is interdenominational. It does not 
seek to reproduce on mission grounds the divisions of 
Protestantism: Evangelical—it holds to the faith once 
for all delivered to the saints: Evangelistic—it believes 
that the evangelization of the world, not its civiliza- 
tion, is the true work of the church. Two other prin- 
ciples are fundamental: The mission does not person- 
ally solicit either missionaries or money, and no sal- 
aries are paid to any one. 


The Executive Council 


The Executive Council considers itself, together 
with the missionaries, as constituting the mission. 


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Towards the Lord’s people in the United States and 
other lands, the council holds itself committed to rec- 
ognize and maintain in fellowship as missionaries only 
those whom it regards as sound in the faith, of godly 
lives, endowed with ministry gifts, and truly called of 
God to labor in Central America. . 

The council receives the gifts of God’s people for 
the evangelization of Central America, distributing 
the same to the missionaries according to their needs. 

The services of the council are wholly gratuitous, 
and postage, stationary and printing are the only items 
of expense. 

Among the many missionaries working under the 
Central American Mission, there are eight from Rev. 
W. L, Pettingill’s church at Wilmington, Del. 


Night School 


The adult Indian is reached by our night school 
which is held three nights a week. Both men and 
women attend. 


Bible Classes for Workers 


Our workers are called in for a four days’ Bible 
study every month. This is most interesting. 


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THE EVANGELICAL UNION OF SOUTH AMERICA 
HEADQUARTERS, LONDON, ENGLAND 


DirECroRs: 


Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, D.D. 


Rey. Len. Broughton, M.D. 
Dr. J. Scott Challice 


Rey. Chas. Inwood, F.R.G.S. 
Rev. A. C. Dixon, D.D. 
Rev. J. Fanstone 


Pastor D. J. Findlay and others 4 


SECRETARY 
Isabella Street, Toronto, Canada. 


FOR NerrtH AMERICA: 


REV. GEORGE SMITH, 135 


cOUNCIL 


Rev. John Neil, D.D., Toronto 

Rey. A. B. Winchester, Toronto 

Rev. T. B. Hyde, Toronto 

John J. Gartshore, Esq., Toronto 

Dr. Harley Smith, Toronto 

Rev. Principal T. R. O'Meara, 
ibika dD 

J. K. MacDonald, Esq., Toronto 

Rev. A. W. Roffe, Toronto 

G. B. Meadows, Esq., Toronto 

Rey. I, R. Dean, Toronto 

Rev. Robert Johnston, 
Montreal 


DD 


Rev. George Hanson, D.D., Mon- 
treal 

W. H. Goodwin, Esq., Montreal 

Rev. Frank Carson, D.D. 

Rev. A. Esler, M.A., Vancouver 

Rev. Dr. Austin K. DeBlois 

A. P. Fitt, Esq., East Northfield 
Mass. 

Rev. W. B. Riley, D.D., Minn. 

Rev: C. I. Scofield, D.D. 

Rev. W. H. Griffith Thomas, 
DAD eeehila: 


The Evangelical Union of South America as its 
name indicates is a mission composed of Evangelical 
Christians, sound in the Fundamentals, and existing 
for the Evangelization of those parts of South America 
where no other Evangelical Christians are working. 

It is a union of Believers both at home and in the 
Field who depend entirely upon God to supply their 
needs. 

Its purpose was to unite small existing missions so 
obviating waste, overlapping and possible rivalries at 
home and in the Field. 

Its methods of working at home have been by pen 
and voice to direct attention to the awful spiritual con- 
dition of that Vast Neglected Continent. 


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At the present moment there are more than seventy 
missionaries in the Field besides a number of native 
Colporteurs. 

The mission exists firstly and chiefly for the evangel- 
ization of the people, and as aids to this end, we have 
a large Farm for Inca Indians in Peru, orphanages, 
printing establishments, schools, medical and nursing 
work, Bible coaches and a mission launch. ; 


WORK BEING DONE 
1. Evangelistic. 


All other branches of work done by the Mission 
are means to this end. Our supreme desire, and for 
which we use every. effort, is to evangelize the people. 
The majority of those in South America have not the 
Gospel, hence our desire is to give it them. 


2. Schools. 


The hope for the future success of our work lies very 
much in the school. The young are teachable. Parents 
attending our meetings, especially Christians, are ea- 
_ger to have their children brought up in a Protestant 
school where the Word of God is taught. Hence the 
necessity and wisdom of the Mission Day School as 
well as Sunday School. Thus they are shielded very 
much from the corruptions of the natives and the error 
of Rome. 


3. Medical and Nursing Work. 


This branch of work has proved to be one of the 
best for removing prejudice and opening closed doors. 
God has very graciously blessed. the efforts of our 
nurses, especially among the poor, who are quite ig- 
norant of the simplest rudiments of cleanliness and 
sanitation. 


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4. Colportage Work. 

Great blessing has followed the efforts of our native 
workers in Bible work. In Lima we train colporteurs 
in a Bible school. Many of them have covered thou- 
sands of miles with God’s Word—through very much 
persecution they have sown the seed in places where 
with our limited staff, it would be impossible to go.’ The 
people would be without the Message of Life. More 
than a ton of Scripture was distributed in Brazil last 
year by our colporteurs. 


5. Inca Indian Farm Work. 

Through ignorance, and subservience to the Roman 
Catholic priests, it is impossible to do much for the 2,- 
000,000 Incas in Peru, unless they are under one’s care 
all the time. For this reason our large farm near 
- Cuzco, Peru, is wholly devoted to the evangelizing of 
these people. They live, work and are taught on the 
farm by an efficient staff of native workers and our 
missionaries. 


6. Printing Gospel Literature. 

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a small press is doing good 
work, and in Lima, Peru, we have a large and complete 
printing outfit, which enables our workers to scatter 
the Word of God in pamphlet form in many parts of 
the country. A monthly paper, called “El Heraldo,” is 
sent to thousands of homes free of postage. This is 
one of the concessions of the government to encourage 
home industry. The number printed of this monthly 
is only limited by the amount of paper at our disposal. 


7. Orphanages. 


We have two orphanages—one in Peru on the Inca 
Farm where we produce all the provisions needed, 


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and one in the Argentine. A beautiful, commodious 
building recently erected in Tres Arrogos. One of South 
America’s greatest needs is the orphanage, and could 
there be a more Christlike work than that of saving 
the little ones from sin and starvation? 


THE COUNTRIES WE ARE WORKING IN 


Brazil 

Largest in South America, about the size of Canada. 
Population 20,000,000. Full religious toleration. <A 
great falling away from Rome. A comparatively small 
part occupied by the Protestant Missionary. Vast ter- 
ritories unevangelized. Numerous tribes of Indians 
unreached by the Gospel. Portuguese predominant lan- 
guage. No state church. Wonderful response given 
to the preaching of the Word. Work, Portuguese. 
Twenty-five Missionaries and a number of native work- 
ers. 

Argentine 

Second largest in South America. Population 6,000,- 
000. The most liberal towards Gospel work, though 
there is a state church. Religious toleration every- 
where. 

Argentine is not strictly Catholic, for there is a wide- 
spread estrangement from, and disgust of the Romish 
church. Hundreds of towns without a Missionary. 
Word, Spanish. Twenty-three missionaries and sever- 
al native workers. 

Peru 

Population about 5,000,000. One hundred tribes of 
Indians. Priesthood of the lowest type. Most Indians 
little more than slaves. A great leaning towards the 


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Gospel. Also a readiness to receive Gospel literature. 
Work, Spanish and Quichua of the Incas. Twenty-five 
missionaries and several native workers. 

All gifts will be duly acknowledged and information 
regarding the work will be gladly given by the Secre- 
tary—Rev. George Smith, 135 Isabella St., Toronto, 
Canada. 


AMERICAN JEWISH MISSIONS 


Besides the preceeding Foreign Missionary Soci- 
eties, we take pleasure in presenting two faith mis- 
sions among American Jews. One of these societies 
operates in Chicago and the other in Brooklyn. 


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THE CHICAGO HEBREW MISSION 
Incorporated, 1891 
CHAS. A. BLANCHARD, PRESIDENT 
WM. E. BLACKSTONE, Vice-PREs. 
WM. R. McCARRELL, Secretary 


DR. FRANK B. KIRBY, TREASURER 
NORMAN H. CAMP, Superintendent. 


BUSINESS OFFICES: 1311 So. Kedzie Ave. 

FOUNDED in 1887 through Wm. E. Blackstone, 
author, preacher, missionary, now vice-president of 
the mission. 

PURPOSE: To give the Gospel of the grace of God 
to “THE JEW FIRST”—tThe Jews of Chicago, the 
Jews of America, and the Jews of the uttermost parts 
of the earth. 

ITS MINISTRY reaches out from four centers lo- 
cated in three large Jewish districts in Chicago and in- 
cludes the following lines of work: 

1. DISTRIBUTION OF TRACTS,» GOSPHES 
TESTAMENTS and BIBLES in English and Yiddish, 
throughout Chicago and many parts of the world. 

2. HOUSE TO HOUSE VISFTATION with per- 
sonal word of testimony and explanation of the Scrip- 
tures: 

3. RELIEF WORK among needy Jewish families 
as funds or supplies are sent in for that purpose. 

4. FREE READING ROOMS open six days a week 
with suitable literature and opportunities for personal 
conversation. 

5. NIGHT SCHOOLS twice a week in the different 
districts, teaching English and reading English Bible. 


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6. CHILDREN’S. CLASSES, CLUBS and. SUN- 
DAY SCHOOLS in three large Jewish Centers. Many 
children thus won for Christ. 


7. MOTHER’S MEETINGS each week for Bible 
study. Women visited also in their homes and helped 
in various ways. 


8. GOSPEL MEETINGS in mission halls. People 
come in from streets and listen to songs, testimonies 
and faithful preaching of God’s Word. 


9. OPEN AIR MEETINGS in different parts of 
Chicago during summer months six nights and two 
afternoons a week. Affords opportunities for personal 
conversations and distribution of quantities of litera- 
ture as well as preaching the Gospel. 


10. “THE JEWISH ERA,” quarterly magazine 
published by the Mission. Reports on Jewish work, in- 
spirational articles on prophecy, the deeper Christian 
life, etc., for information and arousing interest of Chris- 
tians in Jewish evangelization. 


11. THE BOOK STORE supplies Christian litera- 
ture on prophecy and Jewish work, also Bibles, at 
lowest retail prices. Also sends out Testaments, Gos- 
pels and Tracts in English and Yiddish for free distri- 
bution among the Jews. 


12. THE EXTENSION DEPARTMENT provides 
workers to conduct short Bible Conferences, or give 
addresses on the work, in churches, societies, mis- 
sions, etc. No financial guarantee required. Correspon- 
dence solicited. 


How the Work Is Supported 


The mission does not have an endorsement fund, 
but is supported from month to month by voluntary 


78 MISSIONARY HELPERS’ UNION 


contributions of Christian people who are interested in 
the evangelization of the Jews and whose hearts the 
Lord has touched. All such receive God’s special 
blessing according to His promise, “I will bless them 
that bless thee,” and “they shall prosper that love 
thee2 


THE NEEDS OF THE MISSION include the sup- 
port of twenty or more regular workers besides student 
help, the cost of maintaining its buildings and mission 
household, fuel, printing, relief work, etc., and amounts 
to $20,000.00 or more per annum. Gifts of clothing for 
the poor are gratefully received and may be sent by 
mail or express to the Mission Home, 1505 S. Sawyer © 
Ave., Chicago, II. 


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WILLIAMSBURG MISSION TO THE JEWS 
27 Throop Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. 


LEOPOLD COHN, Generat SuPERINTENDENT 
MISS ELLA T. MARSTON, Secretary 
JOSEPH COHN, Fietp Secretary. 


The Williamsburg Mission to the Jews is a regular- 
ly incorporated missionary society under the laws of 
the State of New York. It was established in 1894 by 
Mr. Leopold Cohn, formerly a Rabbi, who had been 
brought in a marvelous way to accept the Lord Jesus 
Christ as his Saviour. The Mission has no guaranteed 
support from any human source; nor does it resort 
to worldly methods for raising funds; the work is car- 
ried on locally and nationally. Locally, two mission 
stations are now maintained in Brooklyn, with many 
varied activities for the aggressive evangelization of 
the 2,000,000 Jews who now live in greater New York 
City. Nationally, the work is pressed throughout the 
entire country by means of the printed page, the Gos- 
pel by mail department alone averaging at least 50,000 
letters and tracts a year to Jews residing all over the 
United States. A monthly publication is issued now 
in. the Yiddish language, entitled “The Shepherd’ of 
Israel,” which is being given an increasingly wide cir- 
culation among the Jews. 

As to doctrine; the mission preaches the Lord Jesus 
Christ only, as the Saviour of the Jews; true regenera- 
tion is required as an evidence of conversion, and as a 
prerequisite to baptism; baptism is by immersion, a 
baptistry having been included in our Headquarters 
building when it was erected. We teach and believe 
in the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ, such 
return being in two phases, the first phase being the 


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rapture, or catching up of the church to be with Him, 
the second phase being the return of the Lord to Je- 
rusalem to redeem the Jewish nation and to establish 
the throne of David. We hold that in the church or 
the body of Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek but 
that we are all one in Christ, that when a Jew has be- 
come a believer in Him he becomes a part of the body 
of Christ just the same as when a Gentile becomes a 
believer in Him. A Jewish Christian congregation has 
been organized and exists here at our Headquarters 
building as a Church body and this congregation has 
adopted a confession of faith which embodies the 
statements above outlined. 

As to sponsorship; the Board of Trustees and the 
Advisory Board include, among others, the following 
names :—Rev. John Donaldson; Frank H. Marston; 
Benjamin F. Knowles; Paul H. Graef; Mrs. Almira 
L. Ogden; Miss Clara E. Masters; Leopold Cohn; 
Miss Ella TI. Marston; Joseph Cohn; Rev. Cortland 
Myers, D.D.; Rev. O. W. Van Osdel, D.D.; Rev. W. 
B. Hinson, D.D., LL.D.; Rev. W. C. P. Rhoades, D.D.; 
Rev. Chas. H. Irving; Rev. James O. Buswell, D.D.; 
“The Christian Herald.” 

As to finances; the needs are between $60,000 and 
$75,000 annually ; the publication of the Yiddish paper 
can be extended to almost a limitless circulation, ma- 
king possible the requirements of $50,000 to $100,000 
a year for this department alone. 

Official Organ; “The Chosen People,” is published 
monthly as the official organ of the Mission; it is sent 
to all contributors; regular subscription price is 50 
cents a year. Address, “The Chosen People,” 27 
Throop Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 








